Endrina Tay
Monticello Staff
Librarian
Charlottesville, VA
About Me
Associate Foundation Librarian for Technical Services @ Jefferson Library, with research interests in Thomas Jefferson's Libraries, and the History of the Book, .... foodie, music-lover, and lifelong learner.
Here's a partial list from Thomas Jefferson's library on LibraryThing.com. As you will see, this list is very much a work in progress, and far from complete. We will continue to catalog more books as we identify them, and update...more »
Thanks so much for your post, Sharon ! We think it is unlikely that the books that we found at Washington University would include books that came from the Bankheads. The 3,000 volumes given to the University in 1880 clearly came from the Coolidge family in Boston. The "c" annotation we found...more »
Definitely one of my favorite rooms in the Monticello house, with links to all of the myriad objects displayed in it.more »
It’s nice to know that Jefferson had to take care of his teeth, just like the rest of us!more »
In bloom remains one of my all-time favorites. Whenever I see something in bloom around Monticello mountain that I don’t know the name of, I look it up in this database. I not only learn the botanical and common name for the plant, I learn something about its historical connection with Jefferson...more »
Whenever people ask me about Monticello, I like to tell them about the Center for Historic Plants (CHP), a hidden treasure at Monticello. Many people tend to think about Monticello as simply being the house and the gardens, but often, they tend not to be aware of the other cool stuff going on,...more »
A one-stop shop for access to research databases of 18th and 19th century books, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, documentary papers, and genealogical resources. I have access to hundreds and thousands of period documents right from my desktop at work! It’s amazing what’s possible. I can’t...more »
An invaluable and authoritative resource on what Jefferson really said and did not say. You could call it the “snopes.com” for Jefferson quotes.more »
A great how-to guide to determining if a Jefferson quote being touted is genuine or not.more »
Apart from the well established Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series documentary project, the Family Letters Project is another example of the pioneering scholarship that is undertaken at Monticello at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. By making freely...more »